Re: [Rails-devel] 1825 Status

[Justin R. <jus...@gm...>]

Okay, thanks Erik.

I don't personally have the mettle to play solo play tests (too
boring), so I'm going to look for a player or two to do some testing
of Unit 1 at least and see how completely playable that is. I'll touch
base with Phil offline, he and I already do some live games together.

If anyone wants to do a simple (Unit 1, no regions) play test with me
over email, ping me offlist. I'll play 2 or 3P game. Let's just play
fast and loose. I don't care about winning, I just want to test out
the start to finish process to see what's needed still.

Justin

On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 4:09 PM, Erik Vos <eri...@xs...> wrote:
> IIRC, it's Phil Davies who started work on 1825.  So far, no special code
> has been written for it, except perhaps for route/revenue calculation (by
> Stefan Frey, but I'm not sure in what state that is). I haven't checked
> which rules cannot yet be implemented in XML and must be specially coded.
>
> However, the first step in implementing a new game always is creating the
> XML configuration files.
> The map has been done for all units and kits, and all special tiles exist,
> but companies, tile quantities, money etc. has only been defined for Unit 1
> so far.
> So even without programming there's still a lot to do with the XML files.
>
> A test run would certainly be helpful.
>
> Erik.
>
>> -----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
>> Van: Justin Rebelo [mailto:jus...@gm...]
>> Verzonden: donderdag 10 maart 2011 23:30
>> Aan: Development list for Rails: an 18xx game
>> Onderwerp: [Rails-devel] 1825 Status
>>
>> Now that I've got eclipse with rails SVN running, I loaded up a quick test
> of
>> 1825 during my break at work with 2 phony players and stepped through a
>> few operating rounds. I haven't tested to see that all rules are being
> adhered
>> to (I did note that it allows a company to place two adjacent yellow
> tiles), but
>> I think rules enforcement is a nice-to-have thing after the game is
> otherwise
>> playable.
>>
>> Can someone who has been working on the 1825 development sound in on
>> what the current expected state of the game is in SVN?
>>
>> If there's no known serious blocker stopping a game from being played
>> properly, then I'd be interested in helping with 1825 implementation by
>> doing a pbem play test of the game and noting all of the outstanding
> issues
>> which I can then compile into a list to be reviewed. I'll check wherever
> the
>> system will let me break a rule and make notes of that, also checking all
> of
>> the route calculations to see if it's miscalculating or not finding
> optimal runs.
>>
>> I hope that at some point I'll be able to contribute something in terms of
>> development, but I'm a self-taught (and by experience) programmer and my
>> languages I've always worked with are interpreted (php/perl/ruby), so Java
> is
>> a pretty big shift for me. Looking through the code, I can follow
> generally
>> where things are happening, but it will be some time before I think I can
>> contribute anything meaningful in that regard. As such, I was hoping that
> I
>> could help by contributing testing time and reporting issues in the form
> of
>> bug or enhancement requests to get a scope of what's remaining to
>> implement for 1825 support and then hopefully we can move towards
>> implementing each unit and regional kit.
>>
>> I think 1825 is a pretty good title to be working towards, since its rules
> are a
>> basis for some other good games like 1853 or 1860 and its modular system
>> give it a lot of interesting replayability options.
>>
>> Justin
>>
>>
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